The 52,582-square-foot building on the northwest corner of Colby and Hewitt avenues, however, doesn’t make sense when the bank has only 50 employees at that location, he said.

The prominent downtown building served as the headquarters for the nearly 100-year-old Cascade Bank of Everett when it was sold in 2011 to Irvine, Calif.-based Opus. The location consists of two buildings joined by a central atrium. The asking price is $6.5 million, and the building is being listed through Jones Lang LaSalle’s Bellevue office.

Opus is seeking a smaller building in the downtown Everett area, Gordon said. The bank recently made a similar move to a smaller space in Bellevue.